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PUBLICATIONS (feel free to contact me for pdf) Google Scholar profile ResearchGate Profile
In the pipeline…
White, Easton R.and Christie A. Bahlai. Experimenting with the past to improve environmental monitoring programs. EcoEvoRxiv.
White, Easton R., Marissa L. Baskett, and Alan Hastings. Catastrophes, connectivity, and Allee effects in the design of marine reserve networks. bioRxiv.
White, Easton R., Kalle Parvinen, and Ulf Dieckmann. Environmental variability and phenology evolution: impacts of climate change and spring onset on reproductive timing in a small mammal. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27435v1.
White, Easton R and Alan Hastings. Seasonality in ecology: Progress and prospects in theory. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27235v1.
Published
[11] White, Easton R.,*Kyle Cox, Brett Melbourne, and Alan Hastings. Ecological management depends strongly on stochasticity: an experimental test. Accepted at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
[10] *Rodríguez-Caro, Roberto C., Thorsten Wiegand, Easton R. White, Ana Sanz-Aguilar, Andrés Giménez, Eva Graciá, and José D. Anadón. A low cost approach to estimate demographic rates using inverse modelling. In press at Biological Conservation.
[9] Fournier, Auriel, Easton R. White, and Stephen Heard. 2019. Site-selection bias can drive apparent population declines in long-term studies. Accepted at Conservation Biology.
[8] White, Easton R. 2019. Minimum time required to detect population trends: the need for long-term monitoring programs. Bioscience. Selected as Editors’ Choice article.
[7] White, Easton R. and Andrew T. Smith. 2018. The role of spatial structure in the collapse of regional metapopulations. Ecology.
[6] White, Easton R. Mark C. Myers, Joanna Mills Flemming, and Julia K. Baum. 2015. Conservation Biology. Shifting elasmobranch community assemblage at Cocos Island – an isolated marine protected area. Here is a corresponding press release.
[5] White, Easton R. John D. Nagy, and Samuel H. Gruber. 2014. Modeling the population dynamics of lemon sharks. Biology Direct 9(1): 1-23
[4] Kessel S. T., Chapman D. D., Franks B. R., Gedamke T., Gruber S. H., Newman J. M., White E. R. and Perkins R. G. 2014. Predictable temperature regulated residency, movement and migration in a large, highly-mobile marine predator. Marine Ecology Progress Series 514
[3] Robinson, James P.W., Easton R. White, Logan D. Wiwchar, Danielle C. Claar, Justin P. Suraci, Julia K. Baum. 2014. The limitations of diversity metrics in directing marine global marine conservation. Marine Policy 48:123-125
[2] Gerber, Leah R. and Easton R. White. 2014. Two-sex matrix models in assessing population viability: when do male dynamics matter? Journal of Applied Ecology 51(1): 270-278
[1] Senko, Jesse, Easton R. White, Sellina S. Heppell, and Leah R. Gerber. 2014. A comparison of fishery management strategies for mitigating bycatch of vulnerable marine megafauna species. Animal Conservation 17(1): 5-18
University of Vermont
University of California, Davis
Software Carpentry
University of Victoria
Scottsdale Community College
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| 2018 | Ph.D. in Population Biology | University of California, Davis |
| 2013 | B.S. in Biology, Minor Mathematics | Arizona State University |
| 2010 | Associate of Science | Scottsdale Community College |
Quantitative ecology, marine ecology, population biology, fisheries, marine protected areas, biology education, active learning, decision theory, species monitoring, conservation science
| In review | PI for working group funds through the Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution ($11,410) |
| 2019-2024 | (CO-PIs) Baker-Medard Merrill, White Easton R., and Elizabeth Fairchild. Socio-Ecological Feedbacks of Marine Protected Areas: Dynamics of Small-Scale Fishing Communities and Inshore Marine Ecosystems. National Science Foundation CNH2: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems. $602,320 |
| 2018 | Graduate Teaching Award, University of California, Davis |
| 2017-2018 | Professor for the Future fellow |
| 2014-2017 | National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow |
| 2013-2014 | Canada Fulbright Awardee |
Google Scholar profile ResearchGate Profile
*Indicates undergraduate or graduate student mentee
| University of Vermont | |
| 2019 | Instructor, Foundations of Quantitative Reasoning (BIO381, PhD-level). |
| University of California, Davis | |
| 2017-2018 | Instructor, BIS2B Ecology and Evolution Bridge Program (Bootcamp), Biology Undergraduate Scholars Program |
| 2018 | Instructor, Science Education and Outreach. |
| 2018 | Instructor, Building your personal baloney detection kit, First Year Seminar program |
| 2017 | Guest Lecturer, Mathematical methods in population biology (graduate-level PBG231) |
| Software Carpentry | |
| 2014-2019 | Instructor for nine two-day workshops in North America (R, shell, and version control) |
| University of Victoria | |
| 2014 | Teaching Assistant, Advanced Ecology (BIO470) |
| 2019-2024 | PI on coupled socio-ecological systems project focused on Madagascar coral reef fisheries |
| 2014-2018 | Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, Advisor: Alan Hastings |
| 2016 | Intern, Young Scientist Summer Program, Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria |
| 2013-2014 | Canada Fulbright Awardee, University of Victoria, Canada, Advisor: Julia Baum |
| 2012-2013 | Researcher, Gerber Lab: Marine Population Biology, Arizona State University, Advisor: Leah Gerber |
| 2009-2013 | Researcher, SCC/ASU Evolutionary Dynamics Laboratory, Advisor: John Nagy |
| 2011-2012 | Intern, Bimini Biological Field Station, Bimini, Bahamas, Supervisor: Samuel Gruber |
| University of California, Davis | |
| Summer 2018-Spring 2019 | Erica Kono, Independent Research Project |
| Summer 2018-Spring 2019 | Reece Schweibold, Independent Research Project |
| Summer 2018-Spring 2019 | Charlotte Rappel, Independent Research Project |
| Spring 2018-Summer 2018 | Ivan Beas, Honors Thesis |
| Spring 2017- Summer 2018 | Kyle Cox, Contributed to research project and publication |
| Winter 2016-Summer 2016 | Jeni Boyer, Independent Research Project |
| Winter 2016-Summer 2016 | Annie Maliguine, Independent Research Project |
| University of Victoria | |
| Fall 2013-Winter 2014 | Mitra Nikoo, Contributed to research project |
| Winter 2014 | Jessica Holden, Contributed to research project |
| Winter 2014 | Michael Sullivan, Contributed to research project |
| Scottsdale Community College | |
| Spring 2012-Spring 2013 | Andrew Nemecek, Independent Research Project |
| Spring 2012-Spring 2013 | Sabrina Jones, Independent Research Project |
| 2018-Present | QuEST NSF-traineeship Leadership Team |
| 2016-2018 | Founder, Population Biology Diversity Committee |
| 2017-2018 | Instructor, Skype a Scientist program |
| 2015 | Volunteer tutor, STEM Cafe |
| 2012-2014 | Cofounder and educator, Mathematics without Boundaries |
| 2017-2018 | Professors for the Future Program, University of California, Davis |
| 2018 | University Ethics and Professionalism |
| 2017 | Seminar on College Teaching |
| 2017 | Center for Educational Excellence Workshop Series |
| 2015-2018 | Graduate Teaching Community Workshop Series |
| 2014 | Software Carpentry Instructor Course |
| 2014 | Mathematics Teaching Workshop, University of Victoria |
| 2014-2019 | Various Software Carpentry travel awards |
| 2019 | Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution honorarium ($1,200) |
| 2018 | UC Davis Graduate Teaching Award ($500) |
| 2018 | UC Davis Graduate Studies Travel Grant ($1,000) |
| 2018 | Population Biology Travel Grant ($800) |
| 2016 | SIAM Travel Grant ($650) |
| 2016 | Population Biology Research Grant ($1,666) |
| 2016 | National Academy of Science Travel Grant ($4,400) |
| 2015 | Mathematical Biosciences Institute traval grant ($750) |
| 2014 | NSF Travel Award ($1,700) |
| 2014 | Fulbright student mobility award ($800) |
| 2013 | NSF Travel Award ($1,300) |
| 2013 | Outstanding Graduating Senior ($500) |
| 2010-2012 | All-Arizona Academic Team Tuition Waiver ($20,000) |
Communications Biology, Ecography, Ecological Modelling, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, PeerJ, PLoSONE, NOAA Grant Review, Science, Theoretical Ecology
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE)
Ecological Society of America (ESA)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB)
Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER)